SCEPTICS CONVINCED

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 19 November 1927, Page 12

SCEPTICS CONVINCED

VALUABLE BREEDING RESEARCH

The most sceptical among farmers now freely admit that a splendid work is being carried on by Dr. F. A. C. Crew and his assistants in the Animal Breeding Research Department of Edinburgh University. At a meeting ot tile Wool Breeding Council (appointed jointly bv the Secretary of State for Scotland ana th© Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries to advise the Departments of Agriculture for England and Wales and Scotland on questions relating to the improvement and utilisation of wool grown in Great Britain) Dr. Crew save a short account of the work in progress in his department. This includes a study of the inheritance of colour in Suffolk sheep, the fixing of standards for measuring qualities of wool, and a critical repetition of Dr. Voronoff’s wont on sheep. The department was also watching with interest the results of the importation of Corriedale sheep into Scotland.

in the course of some other talk at the meeting of the council it transpired that experiments are in pro-

gre?.- with Welsh mountain sheep, with the object of breeding a strain from «Inch kemp m the wool w ill I e eliminated.

The work done on merino wool was referred to by Dr. S. G. Barker. Experiments are in progress as to the relationship between the quality and spinning power of fibres. It has been found that the spinning quali tics of merino wools of the same counts often showed substantial variation*.